Developing basket



G. B. LAMBERT. DEVELOPING BASKET.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 17. 1920.

Patented Sept; 19, 1922.

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l l I l l Patented Sept. 19, 1922.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE B. LAMBERT, OF HUNTINGDON, TENNESSEE.

DEVELOPING BASKET.

Application filed December 17, 1920. Serial No. 431,388.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. LAMBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing in he city of Huntingdon and State of Tennessee, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Developing Baskets, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference he- 6 so that the ends straddlethe bars 4 and depend below. Suitable releasable weights 7 he provided,adapted to releasab ly grasp the lower ends of the films and thus holdthem in the bath and from mutual con tact. W hen the films are thusstrung upon the basket they may readily be immersed in ing had to theaccompanying drawings. the developing, washing and fixing tanks, as

This invention relates to developing basdesired. 10 kets or racks, foruse in developing, washing While I have herein described a certain andfixing photographic films, and the obspecific method of constructing andassemject is to provide a simple, efiicient and dubling the elements ofmy invention, it is unrable backet of this kind, for use inconnecderstood same may be varied in minor detion with the usualdeveloping, Washing and tails, not departing from the spirit of myfixing tanks. invention as defined in the appended claim. In thedrawings: l Vhat 1 claim to be new and patentable is: Figure l is a sideelevation of the basket A developing basket for photographic loaded withfilms; films, the films being doubled at their central Figure 2 is anedge elevation; points; comprising an open rectangular Figure 8 is aplan view. frame; a plurality of transverse bars across The inventionconsists of a rectangular the top of the frame adapted to support theframe 1, open at the sides, top and bottom, doubled films; andreleasable weights for as shown, and provided with a lifting bail 2grasping the lower double ends of the films.

pivoted at 3 to the frame 1. Across the top GEORGE B LAMBERT of theframe 1 are permanently mounted aplurality of transverse bars 4, spacedapart, lVitnesses: and from these bars the films 5 are suspend- HENRY T.BREWER, ed, by doubling the films at the center points D. D. MADDOX.

